“Google’s Pixel, the first smartphone to carry the search giant’s brand name, arrives in stores on Thursday in a lucky stroke of timing,” Brian X. Chen writes for The New York Times. “This holiday season, all Google’s new phone has to do to compete with those from Samsung, the world’s largest handset maker, is not burst into flames. ”

“The absence of a major competing Android device works out especially well for Google because the Pixel is, relatively speaking, mediocre,” Chen writes. “It is slower than Apple’s iPhone 7 and the Galaxy S7, Samsung’s smaller flagship phone. Photos shot with Pixel’s camera don’t look as good as the iPhone’s. And Google’s built-in artificially intelligent virtual assistant, called Assistant, is still fairly dumb.”

“But hey, the Pixel probably won’t burn down your garage or injure a child,” Chen writes. “So if you prefer Android and are already hooked on Google’s suite of internet-powered software, including its maps, photos, email and document-editing apps, then you probably won’t regret buying the Pixel… After testing Pixel for five days, I concluded that although the device’s features are underwhelming, this is a good smartphone for Android fans.”

MacDailyNews Take: In other words: If you’ve already settled for an inferior, privacy-trampling, insecure ecosystem (of sorts) where “free” means that you are the product, not the customer, then an inferior, mediocre handset like Google’s Pixel is perfect for you because you don’t know WTF you’re missing.

Chen concludes that, if you are “not deeply invested in Google’s ecosystem, there is another route: Try an iPhone. Apple’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus outperformed the Pixel in every way in terms of hardware features. And so far, to my knowledge, Apple phones haven’t blown up.”

Hum, I wonder if the reason samsung has not find the cause of their exploding phones is because there is a Iine of hiding code in android that says “if brand = Samsung then “explode”
Or “goto hell”
I know Samsung doesn’t need any help to do crappy products but how can it be possible that they released a phone 2 times and both have an unexplainable explosive behavior? And all this happening exactly at the same time google is trying to make a competitive phone (and failing miserably even with Samsung out of the picture).

So. The pixel is a less capable iPhone wannabe. Right? And the “NEW” pixel lineup suggested retail price, is = to or > than iPhone? Right? So…????
The Pixel is cheaper but costs more than iPhone? or Does Pixel, cost more and suck less than iPhone just because it costs more? When will this stupidity end? When will these dullards stop rewarding willful IP infringers? Pathetic.

Lord above WHY!? did Steve Jobs allow that Schitt scumbag Mole into his inner circle? If you tell a LIE long enough it will eventually become true. Right Eric? FU Mole. You are lower than the whale shite @ the bottom of the ocean. Looking forward to the day when you no long walk this earth. That day can not come soon enough.